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Austin festival Sound on Sound announces inaugural lineup

Graham Williams, who is the founder of Austin’s beloved Fun Fun Fun Fest, split recently from Transmission Events, the concert-promoting company behind Fun Fun Fun Fest, and he began a new company called Margin Walker. Fun Fun Fun Fest may or may not happen this year still. But Williams began a new festival called Sound On Sound and it has practically taken over the Fun Fun Fun. The first Sound On Sound festival is going to be at Austin’s Sherwood Forest Faire 11/4-6, and it’s got an all-over-the-place lineup including Beach House, Phantogram, Run The Jewels, Big Boi, Purity Ring, Descendents, and local Austinites Explosions In The Sky. Check out the full lineup below.

Beach House
Explosions In The Sky
Phantogram
Run The Jewels
Big Boi
Purity Ring
Descendents
Courtney Barnett
Death Grips
Young Thug
Thursday
Mac DeMarco
Wale
Guided By Voices
FLAG
Charles Bradley And His Extrordinaires
Boys Noize
A-Trak
FIDLAR
The Dead Milkmen
Youth Of Today
STRKFKR
Jagwar Ma
Carcass
Thee Oh Sees
Wild Nothing
Aesop Rock
Cursive
Touché Amoré
Bob Mould
Dillinger Escape Plan
Girls Against Boys
Baroness
Thundercat
Empress Of
Car Seat Headrest
Shannon And The Clams
Hinds
Metz
Protomartyr
Baio
Recover
Bully
Diarrhea Planet
Alex G
The Range
Pouya
Turnstile
Denzel Curry
Monkeywrench
Kero Kero Bonito
Beach Slang
Good Riddance
Old Man Gloom
The Relationship (Brian Bell of Weezer)
Into It. Over It.
Diet Cig
White Lung
Youth Code
Planes Mistaken For Stars
War On Women
Open Mike Eagle
American Sharks
Hardproof
Radioactivity
Boyfrndz
Calliope Musicals
Magna Carda
Night Drive
Moving Panoramas
Leopold & His Fiction
Boombaptist
P-Tek
Piñata Protest
Orthy
Anya
Die Young
Emily Wolfe
Illustrations
Us Weekly

That is a great lineup! Head over here for all the relevant details.

Free Press Summer Fest reveals 2016 lineup

Free Press Summer Fest have announced its 2016 lineup. The two-day music festival will take place June 4th – 5th at Eleanor Tinsley Park in Houston, Texas.

The lineup features The National, Modest Mouse, Refused, Jamie xx, Mac DeMarco, Built to Spill, Big Grams (Big Boi and Phantogram), ASAP Ferg, Against Me!, Thee Oh Sees, and The Black Angels

Also playing are deadmau5, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Leon Bridges, Young the Giant, Big Giantic, Gogol Bordello, Matt and Kim, Violent Femmes, Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, San Fermin, Matthew Logan Vasquez, Chicano Batman, White Denim, BØRNS, and more.

Single-day and two-day tickets are on sale now.

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Thee Oh Sees announce new album, Mutilator Defeated At Last, and premieres “Web”

San Francisco band, Thee Oh Sees, have announced their sixth album in five years. The album entitled, Mutilator Defeated At Last, is set to be released on April 19th through the band’s frontman’s, John Dwyer’s, Castle Face Records.

Mutilator Defeated At Last serves as the follow-up for Drop which was released last year and features Dwyer, Tim Hellman, Nick Murray, Chris Woodhouse, and Brigid Dawson as the line-up. The album was mixed by Woodhouse and mastered by John Golden who also produced bands such as Soundgarden, the Melvins, and Ty Segall.

The band have released the opening track, “Web”, which you can listen to here.

Mutilator Defeated At Last Tracklist:

01. Web
02. Withered Hand
03. Poor Queen
04. Turned Out Light
05. Lupine Ossuary
06. Sticky Hulks
07. Holy Smoke
08. Rogue Planet
09. Palace Doctor

Austin Psych Fest reveals 2015 line-up

Austin Psych Fest has announced details about its 2015 festival. Named LEVITATION, the festival, from May 8th-10th will take place at Carson Creek Ranch in Austin, Texas.

The line-up is studded with bands such as Tame Impala, Spiritualized, Primal Scream, The Flaming Lips, and The Jesus and Mary Chain.

Orher bands on the line-up include, Thee Oh Sees, Mac DeMarco, Lightning Bolt, A Place to Bury Strangers, Ty Segall’s FUZZ, The Sword, Earth, The Black Angels, Melody’s Echo Chamber, METZ, White Fence, The Soft Moon, Rose Windows, The Black Ryder, Night Beats, The Blank Tapes, Nothing, Indian Jewelry, and Fat White Family. More acts are yet to be announced.

The website has more information and to purchase weekend and camping passes.

SXSW announced preliminary music lineup

Returning to Austin between March 13th and the 22nd is the widely popular South by Southwest. The music part of the showcase takes place between March 17th through 22nd. Organizers announced a list of preliminary acts set to play over the course of that week.

Among that list are: The Dodos, Jessie Ware, The Pop Group, Thee Oh Sees, Carl Barat and The Jackals, Twin Peaks, The Twilight Sad, The Big Pink, Ben Kweller, Mew, Courtney Barnett, Twerps, Black Milk, Bishop Nehru, Alvvays, Pharmakon, Lust For Youth, Dry the River, Hey Marseilles, Moon Duo, The Octopus Project, Sleep ∞ Over, Ume, The Stone Foxes, Jonathan Toubin, Warm Soda, Natural Child, The Lonely Wild, Civil Twilight, Cheerleader, and Angus & Julia Stone. In all, over 1,000 acts will perform in Austin during SXSW.

Mark Duplass, actor/director is set to be one of the keynote speakers for SXSW’s film portion.

Badges to attend SXSW are available on the festival’s website.

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. I Come From the Mountain – Thee Oh Sees

2. Weekend – Smith Westerns

3. Young Folks – Peter Bjorn and John

4. All My Friends – LCD Soundsystem

5. Do You Realize?? – The Flaming Lips

6. Fa-Fa-Fa – Datarock

7. 2080 – Yeasayer

8. Bury Us Alive – STRFKR

9. All Of Me – Tanlines

10. It’s My Part -Jonquil

11. Dreamers – Savior Adore

12. Til Tomorrow – Dwntwn

13. Key to My Heart – Zulu Winter

14. Wax – Theme Park

15. Playin’ With My Friends – Masters in France

16. Bloom – Gypsy & The Cat

17. Mr Polite – The Jungle Giants

18. Cherry Lips – Loon Lake

19. It’s Nice to Be Alive – Ball Park Music

20. My Gun – The Rubens

Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist